Philip Gourevitch





Philip Gourevitch

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January 01, 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

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Gourevitch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to painter Jacqueline Gourevitch and philosophy professor Victor Gourevitch, a translator of Jean Jacques Rousseau. He and his brother Marc, a physician, spent most of their childhood in Middletown, Connecticut, where their father taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1995. Gourevitch graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He eventually graduated in 1986. In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University. Gourevitch went on to pu...more


Average rating: 4.33 · 8,166 ratings · 963 reviews · 20 distinct works
We Wish to Inform You That ...
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 7,317 ratings — published 1998 — 25 editions
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A Cold Case
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007
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The Paris Review: Issue 189
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009
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The Paris Review: Issue 190
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The Paris Review Issue 185
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008
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“The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.”
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

“Like Leontius, the young Athenian in Plato, I presume that you are reading this because you desire a closer look, and that you, too, are properly disturbed by your curiosity. Perhaps, in examining this extremity with me, you hope for some understanding, some insight, some flicker of self-knowledge – a moral, or a lesson, or a clue about how to behave in this world: some such information. I don’t discount the possibility, but when it comes to genocide, you already know right from wrong. The best reason I have come up with for looking closely into Rwanda’s stories is that ignoring them makes me even more uncomfortable about existence and my place in it. The horror, the horror, interests me only insofar as a precise memory of the offense is necessary to understand its legacy.”
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

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